The only members of New York's Republican delegation who are not included in the new PAC are longtime congressman Peter King, and the House's most junior member, Bob Turner, who won a special election in a heavily Democratic Brooklyn-Queens district last month.

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Most of the freshmen are expected to face tough re-election fights, and the joint PAC allows the participating members to do some collective fund-raising. It's a fairly routine thing to do, but the state's redistricting process, in which Republicans are expected to lose one seat, has the potential to make even this awkward, since there's a very real chance two of them will be fighting for the same district by next year.